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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Huffington Post Comments, 10/16/2012

Me:

(If you meant me) I thank you for your kind comment.

However, the republicans did not, and do not, like Obama's policies, they wanted his policies to fail to become laws.

If you ask them they would say that they wanted Obama to be a successful
president; they want the country to do well. They thought that the way
to do that was to prevent as many of Obama's policies as possible from
becoming laws.

In any case. The democrats had 2008-2010 to pass all of the laws that they wanted and they did not even pass a budget.

I see. So it was as a result of patriotism that the GOP took this
country to the brink with the debt ceiling? When Rush Limbaugh said he
hoped Obama failed within about a week of his inauguration, that was his
deep love for his country? They wanted certain people in the country to
do well - the "1%"; "the haves and have mores" - as Bush liked to call
them. It simply isn't correct that they had two years to pass anything -
the Blue Dogs actually are "Conservative Dems" or Republicans. Apart
from anything - many Republicans voted against ideas they'd previously
supported - to ensure Obama's failure. After the inauguration a cabal of
them plotted to obstruct everything he did. It's called treason - the
opposite of patriotism.

Me:

We seem to have a difference of opinion about what is important about the federal debt. The debt ceiling is merely an arbitrary number that is raised whenever we get close to it.

If you are concerned about the debt, then I will direct your attention to the amount of debt that has been added during Obama's presidency.

President Bush ran a yearly deficit, so has president Obama. Couldn't we say that Obama is continuing Bush's budget policies. And at least President Bush signed budgets into law, unlike Obama.

My first comment was a paraphrase of Rush's comments on the subject. (The only time that I've ever quoted or paraphrased him.) Rush said, repeatedly, he wants the country to succeed. In order for that to happen he (and I) think that President Obama's policies need to fail.

Could you name one issue where "Republicans voted against ideas they'd previously
supported"?

Rather than call people who have voted against Obama's bills "traitors" wouldn't we all be better served finding places where we can balance the budget?

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Me:

We have 300,000 pages of laws covering every aspect of our lives. You
cannot claim that, in the presence of all of these laws, that it was a
lack of regulations that caused our current situation. You might argue
that the regulators did not do their jobs. If so, how would adding more
laws, that they won't enforce, improve anything?

Another thing to take note of: the two worst depressions in American
history happened when the government tried to help more than at any
other time. (See: New Deal, Stimulus)

I was not asking you to embrace CEOs. Some of them are bad. Just like
some teachers, nurses, and scientists are bad. But they are not all the
villains that you are claiming them to be.

I think that we can agree that all subsidies and bailouts for big
businesses, or anyone else, are bad and we should encourage our
politicians to oppose them in the future.

Where is the evidence that says some businesses are "forcing" their employees to vote in any way?

Nearly all union money (which comes from dues, weather or not the union
member wants to belong to it) goes to democrats. Are you opposed to
this as well?